{"id":4404,"date":"2025-12-19T08:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:44:14","slug":"top-3-least-wanted-gifts-this-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4404","title":{"rendered":"Top 3 Least Wanted Gifts This Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JPA528.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JPA528.jpg\" alt=\"Political cartoon: Top 3 Least Wanted Gifts This Holiday Season\" class=\"wp-image-4405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JPA528.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JPA528-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen where right-wing folks have been opining and conjecturing and outright accusing Governor Whitmer of corruption. That she&#8217;s on the take from big tech and their billionaires to build their data centers. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be actual evidence of that. It&#8217;s projection. The Trump administration is absolutely grifting at every turn, and \u2014 right from the demagogue playbook \u2014 they accuse anybody not 100% with them of doing the very thing that they are actively doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what I believe to be the cause of Whitmer&#8217;s increasingly blind passion for pushing data centers in Michigan is her politician instincts to land the big fish. Nothing better than a contract signing or ribbon cutting ceremony for a big facility. Jobs! Prosperity! And all because of me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth is, those big fish often end up to be a big regret. Remember a few years ago and the Foxconn project that Wisconsin reeled in (or thought that they reeled in)? It started as a $10 billion plan for a massive display-panel factory promising 13,000 jobs, and then failed to materialize, leaving taxpayers on the hook. Michigan should be more focused on growing the smaller fish that we have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen where right-wing folks have been opining and conjecturing and outright accusing Governor Whitmer of corruption. That she&#8217;s on the take from big tech and their billionaires to build their data centers. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be actual evidence of that. It&#8217;s projection. The Trump administration is absolutely grifting at every turn, and \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4406,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions\/4406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}